Crossword clues for tasted
tasted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taste \Taste\ (t[=a]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tasting.] [OE. tasten to feel, to taste, OF. taster, F. tater to feel, to try by the touch, to try, to taste, (assumed) LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare to touch sharply, to estimate. See Tax, v. t.]
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To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. [Obs.]
--Chapman.Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find.
--Chaucer. -
To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine.
--John ii. 9.When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse.
--Gibbon. -
To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
I tasted a little of this honey.
--1 Sam. xiv. 29. -
To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.
He . . . should taste death for every man.
--Heb. ii. 9. -
To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.
Thou . . . wilt taste No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: taste)
Usage examples of "tasted".
At the base of her sinuses, she tasted the last savour of the tea that she had swallowed, and felt the faint distension of her stomach around the warm liquid.
Anything he consumed these days, he complained, tasted sour or flat or insipid and caused heartburn.
The cool air she inhaled tasted sweet and natural after two weeks of ship air, and a week's worth of pollution before that.
It tasted like any one of the standard restoratives: fruity, sweet, with an undertaste of bitter salt.
The formula the synthesisers poured out had no caffeine, but it smelled oily and rich and wonderful, and tasted just like she remembered the real brew.
Pat had tasted honest beef meat once, but she had found it tough to chew.
Synthesised food always tasted flat to her, and the school synth machines were notoriously bad.
The air tasted ‘tanky’ as they put it, and she had to remind herself where all the switches were.
The things tended to cluster in this area, which was full of third-generation stars and black holes, though this one tasted like a signal.
Realizing that she was now on the thin edge of sanity, she forced herself to count, thinking of the shape of each number, tasting it, pretending to feel it and push it onward as she thought, tasted, and pretended to feel the next number, and the next, and the next.
Keff tasted cherries and cinnamon on her lips, delighted to lose himself in her perfume.
But, as he had also never tasted wine, he was unaware of what had actually been served.
Delighted, Rojer watched long enough to discover many favorite and esoteric dishes before he ordered the most unusual item he saw - a high protein described as 'genuine beefalo steak', which tasted succulent enough to be genuine.
If it tasted half as good as it smelled, it would be an improvement on the Bascum brew.
His lips tasted salty, but firm, parting hers as he settled his mouth against her, and once again the shock of their contact was almost like .